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Safety-critical valves in the nuclear sector
HazardExBy Josh Leuenberger, IMI Critical EngineeringThe ever more stringent demands on safety-critical valves in the nuclear sector and how the sector’s leading players are responding with new solutions and technologies.
L-101 Level School - Introductory
This introductory level course will start by providing maintenance and engineering personnel with a basic understanding of numerous level technologies. This basic portion will focus on concepts applicable to virtually any manufacturer's equipment. Following this introduction, we will proceed with in-depth training on Time of Flight (ToF) technologies that include a variety of radar types as well as ultrasonic level transmitters. This will be a combination of classroom and hands-on training.
I-102 Instrumentation Technology School
This extended course in process instrumentation will provide maintenance and engineering personnel with a deeper understanding of the principles explored in our Basic Instrumentation School (I101). Fundamental and detailed operation of the common instruments and applications found in today's process industries will be examined from a view applicable to virtually any manufacturer's equipment. Typical troubleshooting procedures for instrumentation will be covered and practiced.
I-102 Instrumentation Technology School
This extended course in process instrumentation will provide maintenance and engineering personnel with a deeper understanding of the principles explored in our Basic Instrumentation School (I101). Fundamental and detailed operation of the common instruments and applications found in today's process industries will be examined from a view applicable to virtually any manufacturer's equipment. Typical troubleshooting procedures for instrumentation will be covered and practiced.
I-102 Instrumentation Technology School
This extended course in process instrumentation will provide maintenance and engineering personnel with a deeper understanding of the principles explored in our Basic Instrumentation School (I101). Fundamental and detailed operation of the common instruments and applications found in today's process industries will be examined from a view applicable to virtually any manufacturer's equipment. Typical troubleshooting procedures for instrumentation will be covered and practiced.
I-102 Instrumentation Technology School
This extended course in process instrumentation will provide maintenance and engineering personnel with a deeper understanding of the principles explored in our Basic Instrumentation School (I101). Fundamental and detailed operation of the common instruments and applications found in today's process industries will be examined from a view applicable to virtually any manufacturer's equipment. Typical troubleshooting procedures for instrumentation will be covered and practiced.
Eaton introduces PowerXL DG1 Variable Speed Pump Drive
The industrial pump solution, available in open- or closed-loop motion control configurations, reduces operational costs.
A-101 pH & Conductivity Measurement School
This course will start by providing maintenance and engineering personnel with a basic understanding of pH and Conductivity analytical technologies. This basic portion will focus on concepts applicable to virtually any manufacturer's equipment. Following this introduction, we will proceed with in-depth training on pH and conductivity. The class will be a combination of classroom and hands-on training.
A-101 pH & Conductivity Measurement School
This course will start by providing maintenance and engineering personnel with a basic understanding of pH and Conductivity analytical technologies. This basic portion will focus on concepts applicable to virtually any manufacturer's equipment. Following this introduction, we will proceed with in-depth training on pH and conductivity. The class will be a combination of classroom and hands-on training.
AST adds low power output to pressure sensors
AST4000 series sensors have an analog voltage output signal to be used with battery powered systems that consumes less than 3mA of current during operation.
Disruptive Technologies Make or Break Your Business
By Bill Lydon, EditorThe adoption of disruptive technologies can make or break your business. The effects can be positive or negative. Adopting what appears to be a disruptive technology that does not go mainstream or adopting it too early can break or significantly hurt a business. Automation professionals are in a unique position to understand, evaluate, and make recommendations to management about the adoption of new technology.
Explosion-proof distribution box Market 2015 - Global Industry and Forecast
2015 Global Explosion-proof distribution box Industry Report is a professional and in-depth research report on the world's major regional market conditions of the Explosion-proof distribution box industry, focusing on the main regions (North America, Europe and Asia) and the main countries (United States, Germany, Japan and China).
Introducing SIS-TAG brand Safety Instrumented System Device Identification Tags
SIS-TAGs provide for high visibility and asset management of safety critical devices in harsh environments in the process industries.
Water Corporation of Australia Implements Change Management software
The software from MDT manages changes to 16,000 programmable devices in remote areas across the continent and reduces safety risks to employees associated with unmanaged control system changes.
SEL introduces microgrid control system
Microgrid control solution allows seamless integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) to maintain uninterrupted power to critical loads.
AutomationDirect releases IDEM emergency stop control stations
Available in plastic and stainless steel housings, the emergency stop control stations conform to ISO 13850, ISO 13849-01, IEC 60947-5-1 and IEC 60947-5-5. Prices start at $29.
Emerson introduces Fisher Z500 ball valves
The metal-seated ball valves provide tight shutoff for improved process efficiency and uptime.
Siemens adds Sitrans pressure transmitters
Sitrans P310 and P410 provide 0.075 percent and 0.04 percent accuracy respectively.
PROFINET One-Day Training Class - Raleigh
This FREE one-day class prepares the student to apply PROFINET in his own project. Lunch is included. Technical details of the technology are provided along with practical demonstrations. Each student will receive a certificate for 5.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH).
PROFINET One-Day Training Class - Detroit
This FREE one-day class prepares the student to apply PROFINET in his own project. Lunch is included. Technical details of the technology are provided along with practical demonstrations. Each student will receive a certificate for 5.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH).
PROFINET One-Day Training Class - Louisville
This FREE one-day class prepares the student to apply PROFINET in his own project. Lunch is included. Technical details of the technology are provided along with practical demonstrations. Each student will receive a certificate for 5.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH).
PROFINET One-Day Training Class - Tampa
This FREE one-day class prepares the student to apply PROFINET in his own project. Lunch is included. Technical details of the technology are provided along with practical demonstrations. Each student will receive a certificate for 5.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH).
PROFINET One-Day Training Class - Chicago
This FREE one-day class prepares the student to apply PROFINET in his own project. Lunch is included. Technical details of the technology are provided along with practical demonstrations. Each student will receive a certificate for 5.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH).
PROFINET One-Day Training Class - Toronto
This FREE one-day class prepares the student to apply PROFINET in his own project. Lunch is included. Technical details of the technology are provided along with practical demonstrations. Each student will receive a certificate for 5.5 Professional Development Hours (PDH).
Honeywell releases Uniformance Asset Sentinel software
Software continuously monitors equipment and process health, assisting industrial facilities to predict and prevent asset failures and poor operational performance.
Badger Meter introduces RCVCALC valve sizing software
Free software guides specifiers through selecting the right control valve for any project.
VarTech introduces hazardous area purge workstations
The workstations are rated Class 1 and Class 2, Division 1, Zone 1 and Zone 21.
ABB releases Automation Builder software
Automation Builder 1.1 provides an integrated development environment for solutions using PLCs and safety PLCs, motion controllers, drives, robots and HMIs.
Controls, safety and management systems help meet demand for renewable packaging board
Control Engineering EuropeEurope’s largest pulp, board and paper manufacturer, Stora Enso, migrating the plant from its previous control system to Honeywell’s Experion PKS (Process Knowledge System), which offers a unified architecture for process control, safety systems and automation software.
Turbo generator plant upgrades to AUMA electric actuators
Process & Control TodayEraring power station in NSW Australia has upgraded pneumatic actuators for seal air dampers at 28 coal mills with AUMA’s electric actuation technology. Over 400 AUMA actuators have been adopted in all plant areas: applications include on-off, inching/positioning and modulating duty.
Speedy delivery of calibration data
By Jim MontagueCalibration is a complex procedure that takes time, and time is money. Here's how some facilities are saving both and also getting better data
Deploying wireless safely and securely
ControlBy Jim MontagueWireless is expanding into more tight places and remote process applications than ever before. Here's how it's deployed safely and securely in various applications.
Controller selection criteria: Keys to achieving operational excellence
Control EngineeringBy Aneel Shehzad Baig and, Taimoor Shabbir Khan, Intech Process AutomationThe process of achieving operational excellence is selecting the right automation technologies that will ensure industrial processes run smoothly at the desired level of performance.
Do it yourself HMI
Control EngineeringBy Richard Clark, InduSoftShould you build or buy a human-machine interface (HMI)? Developing PC-based HMI software may seem a simple task, but there are pitfalls. Configuring a purchased HMI software package is often a better long-term option. A table compares HMI software development versus configuration.
Simplifying Plant Floor to Enterprise Data Integration
By Bill Lydon, EditorThe need to improve manufacturing operations and maintenance using real-time data is creating a greater need to efficiently link larger volumes of data from controllers to the enterprise. Connecting real-time information from disparate control devices to operations, maintenance, and enterprise systems is not an easy task. Here's one solution that may help.
Tecsis introduces XPDM differential pressure transducer
Model XPDM is a medium range differential pressure transducer designed for ranges from 0-50 to 0-1,500 psid.
Wind River Introduces App Store for VxWorks RTOS
The app store includes packages ranging from safety, security, and storage to connectivity, graphics, and development tools.
Rotork releases AB550M gearbox for motorised quarter-turn valves
The AB550M will operate a large range of ball, butterfly and plug valves, or power and process dampers.
Fluke introduces 721Ex Intrinsically Safe Precision Pressure Calibrator
This calibrator is rated IECEx and Atex Ex ia IIB T3 Gb (Zone 1) for safe operation in hazardous environments with potentially explosive atmospheres.
Siemens announces XHQ Operations Intelligence software
XHQ provides near-real-time visibility of operations within process manufacturing facilities.
Siemens enhances Simatic S7-410 controller
Improvements include coatings for operation in toxic atmospheres, increased fault tolerance of the redundant system, and extending the ambient temperature range up to 70C.
SignalFire adds more sensor capability to Remote Sensing System
The wireless remote sensing system can now interface with thermocouples, turbine meters and load cells.
GRP Enclosures aid Migration to Wireless Instrumentation Networking
By IntertecGlass-reinforced polymer (GRP) composite material for protective enclosures is electromagnetically transparent, making it easier to deploy wireless instrumentation.
Pentek releases RTV 2602 Serial FPDP recording and playback system
RTV 2602 supports up to four independently clocked Serial FPDP links using copper or optical cables with single-mode or multimode fibre. Price: $19,495.
Exele Releases VOIP Call-out Alarm Notification
TopView with VOIP call-out alarm notification delivers spoken alarm messages to phones and devices using a local network or through the Internet.
Guidelines for implementing ISA-88 in discrete machines
InTechThe widely used ISA-88 series of standards provides terminology and a consistent set of concepts and models for batch manufacturing plants and batch control. The standards, however, were not defined in the context of packaging machines or machines that perform discrete operations. The ISA88 committee, Batch Control, has completed a revision of ISA-TR88.00.02, Machine and Unit States: An Implementation Example of ISA-88.
Cybersecurity, ISA, and Automation Federation and how we got here
InTechBy Stephen R. HuffmanISA99, now IEC/ISA 62443, will play a more prominent role in securing the control systems of industry in the future through a public-private information-sharing partnership. Thanks for the foresight and fortitude of the ISA99 standards committee.
Maintaining oil and gas industry productivity and profitability
InTechMajor factors affecting the oil and gas industry include the aging workforce, cybersecurity threats, competitiveness in a shrinking market, and increased regulation, according to Siemens’ Wolfgang Rubrecht.. Thirty to forty percent of the workforce will be retiring in the next 10 years.
Internet of Things and data noise
InTechBy Bill LydonMany industry experts and analysts are telling industry leaders to adopt the Internet of Things concepts in their business or they will fail.This is creating an unfocused urgency and zeal to monitor everything, which could lead to over instrumenting automation systems and creating data noise.
Emerson to automate power plants in India
Emerson will provide automation technologies and expertise for two new 800-megawatt supercritical generating units at the Darlipali Super Thermal Power Station in the Sundergarh District, Odisha, India.
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